Researcher Stephanie Martin processes a blubber biopsy from an adult blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, encountered off the edge of the continental shelf at the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica, Southern Ocean


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Blue Whale | Balaenoptera musculus

Researcher Stephanie Martin processes a blubber biopsy from an adult blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, encountered off the edge of the continental shelf at the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
Credit to: BluePlanetArchive / Michael S. Nolan

Image dimensions: 5400x3600

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